Dana Inkster
{{Short description|Canadian artist and filmmaker}}
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Dana Inkster is a Canadian media artist and filmmaker.{{cite web |url=http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/getting-messy-and-complicated-with-dana-inkster/ |title=Getting Messy and Complicated with Dana Inkster |last=McLeod |first=Dayna |date=2009 |website=nomorepotlucks.org |publisher=No More Potlucks |access-date=March 8, 2015}}
Biography
Inkster grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. She focused on political studies during her undergraduate education at Queen's University,{{cite news|title=The activists: Into the fire. no grumbling from the sidelines with this group, they are doers who jump in with both feet. look among their ranks for the leaders of tomorrow series: 100 to watch|publisher=Maclean's|id={{ProQuest|218540358}}}} and has a Graduate Diploma in Communications Studies from Concordia University.{{cite book|title=Anthem / Hymne: Perspectives on Home and Native Land|date=2008 |publisher=ABC Art Books Canada Distribution|isbn=978-0770905194}} She currently lives and works in Lethbridge, Alberta{{cite web |url=http://www.banffcentre.ca/media_room/Media_Releases/2008/0211_wpg_anthem.asp |title=Walter Phillips Gallery to host exhibition on nationhood and identity |author= |date=February 11, 2008 |website=www.banffcentre.ca/ |publisher=Banff Centre |access-date=March 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402231756/http://www.banffcentre.ca/media_room/Media_Releases/2008/0211_wpg_anthem.asp |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |url-status=dead }} where she lives with her partner and their son.{{cite web |url=http://dailyxtra.com/toronto/arts-and-entertainment/filmmaker-dana-inkster-12761 |title=Filmmaker Dana Inkster |last=Bhogal |first=Preet |date=May 7, 2008 |website=dailyxtra.com/ |publisher=Xtra! |access-date=March 8, 2015}}
Artistic career
Inkster's work often experiments with narrative while exploring the complexities of identify, which stem in part, from her experiences as a black, queer, feminist. Her first film, Welcome to Africville, was released in 1999. In 2008, her film 24 Days in Brooks, which documents a 2005 labour strike at Lakeside Packers,{{cite web |url=http://www.uleth.ca/unews/article/rethinking-stereotypes#.VPysU0fF91A |title=Rethinking stereotypes |last=Kenney |first=Trevor |date= October 29, 2009 |publisher=University of Lethbridge |access-date=March 8, 2015}} won an Alberta Motion Picture Industry Award for best production reflecting cultural diversity. The film examines the lives of recent immigrant workers drawn to Brooks by numerous entry-level, unskilled labour jobs.{{cite web|url=http://www.ffwdweekly.com/screen/film-features/immigration-influx/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150309234120/http://www.ffwdweekly.com/screen/film-features/immigration-influx/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 9, 2015 |title=Immigration influx |last=Ciccone |first=Carla |date=September 27, 2007 |website=Fast Forward Weekly |access-date=March 8, 2015 }}
Inkster has directed a television ad in a Canadian Race Relations Foundation anti-racism campaign.{{cite news|title=Canadian Race Relations Foundation announces launch of national anti- racism campaign|publisher=Canada NewsWire|date=21 Oct 1999|id={{ProQuest|455080550}}}}
She has won the best Canadian female film director prize from the Toronto Images Film Festival. The Art of Autobiography was awarded Best Short or Medium-length Documentary by the Association of Quebec Cinema Critics.
Filmography
- Welcome to Africville (1999)
- The Art of Autobiography: Redux I (2001)
- 24 Days in Brooks (2007){{cite web |url=https://www.nfb.ca/film/24_days_in_brooks |title=24 Days in Brooks |author= |date=|publisher=National Film Board |access-date=March 8, 2015}}
- The Writer's Room (in development)
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Category:Canadian women film directors
Category:Canadian women artists
Category:Canadian documentary film directors
Category:Black Canadian filmmakers
Category:Film directors from Ottawa
Category:Canadian LGBTQ artists
Category:Canadian LGBTQ film directors
Category:Black Canadian LGBTQ people
Category:Black Canadian artists
Category:Canadian women documentary filmmakers
Category:21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people